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An Ordinance. * ■ An ordinance to prevent the spreading of diseases through the keeping and ex posing for sale oi second hand and cast off clothing, to provide for the disinfection of such clothing by the Board ot Health of the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for the disinfection and the proper registry Mavnr Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Griffin, that from and after the passage of this ordi nance, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to keep ana expose for sale any second hand or cast off clothing within the corporate lim its of the City of Griffin, unless the said clothing has been disinfected by the Board , of Health of the City of: Griffin, and the certiiwlßbf Said Board ot Health giving the number and character of the gannents disinfected by them has been filed in the office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin; provided pothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving individual citizens ot the right to sell or otherwise dispose of their own or their family wearing apparel, unless the same is known to have been subject to conta geoufi diseases, in which event this ordi nance shall apply. Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That for eaehgarment disinfected by the Board of Health of Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to said board the actual cost of disinfecting the said garments^and tor the issuing of the certificate required by this ordinance the sum oi twenty-five cents, and to the Clerk-and Treasurer of the City of Griffin for the registry of said certificate the sum of fifty cents. Sec. 3rd. Beit further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That every person or persons, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined and sentenced not morethtn one hundred dollars, or sixty days In the chain gang, cither or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the Criminal Court, f>r each of fense. It shall be the duty of the police, force to see that this ordinance is strictly enforced and report all violations the Board of Health. Bec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Griffin that from and after the passage of this Ordinance.: Bee. Ist. That it shall be unlawftil for any person to damage, injure, abuse or temper with any water meter, spigot, fire plug, curb box, or any other fixture or machinery belonging to the Water Depart ment of the City of Griffin; provided that a licensed plumber may use curb service box to test his work, but shall leave ser vice cock as he found it under penalty of the above section. Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any consumer to permit any person, not em ployed by them, or not a member of their family, to use water from their fixtures. Sec. 3rd. It shall be unlawful for any person to use water from any spigot or spigots other than those paid for by him. Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful for any person to couple pipes to spigots unless paid for as an extra outlet. See. sth. It shall be unlawful for any person to turn on water to premises or add any spigot or fixture without first obtain ing a permit from the Water Department. Sec. 6th. It shall be unlawful for any person to allow their spigots, hose or sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00 o’clock p. m.wnd 6:00 o’clock a. m., for any purpose whatever, unless there is a meter on the service. Spigots and pipes must be boxed or wrapped to prevent freezing -, they will not be allowed to run for that purpose. Bee. 7th. The employes of the Water Department shall have access to the premises of any subscriber for the purpose of reading meters, examining pipes, fix tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any person to' interfere, or prevent their doing so. Sec. Bth. Any person violating any of the provisions ofthe above ordinance shall be arrested, and carried before the Criminal Court of Griffin and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or sentenced to work on the public works ofthe City of Griffin for a term net exceeding sixty daysj or be im prisoned in the city prison for a term not exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water Department shall have the same authbrity and power ot regular policemen of the City of Griffin, for the purpose' of enforc ing the above ordinance. Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Griffin, That from and after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol lowing rates'will be charged for the use of water peryear: 1. Dwellings: One f inch opening for subscribers'— use only I 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries 24.00 Each additional opening. 6 00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year rental of same, paid-in advance. A mini mum of SI.OO per month will be charged for water while the meter is on the service. The reading of the meters will be held proof of use of water, but should meter fail to register, the bill will be averaged from twelve preceding months. 3. Meter rates will be as follows: 7,000 to • 25,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000 MA9fr< J 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 19c “ 100,000 “ 500,000 " “ 10c “ 800,000 * 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “ The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per month, whether that amount of water has been used or not. 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged for full time. 5. Water wiH not be turned on to any premises unless provided with an approved stop and waste cock properly located in an accessible position. 6. The Water Department shall have the right to shut off water for necessary repairs and work upon the system, and they are not liable for any damages or re bate by reason ofthe same. 7. Upon application to the Water De partment, the city will tap mains and lay pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest of the piping must be done by a plumber . at the consumers’expense. .... JACK AND HIS GROG. SAILORS' DEVICES FOR SMUGGLING LIQUOR ABOARD SMW». Ingenious Schemes That Are Invented On ly to Be Squelched What It Means When Jackie Combs His Mustache With a Marline Spike. “Them is perhaps less drunkenness among the enlisted men of the United States navy than among the men for ward cf any of the world’s big sea fit outs, ” said a naval officer of experience to the writer. “Drunkenness passed with the old navy. In the days of- the old Tuscarora or the Tennessee, as the sailors put it, it was a common enough thing to see about three-quarters of a ship’s company returning from shore liberty in such a state that they had to be hoisted oyer the side x in bosun’s chairs to save the trouble ot carrying them up the gangway. But that sort of thing is no longer endured. Men who go ashore after having remained aboard ship for a considerable period are ex pected by the officer of the deck to re turn just a trifle exhilarated, but they never return quite incapable. • “Men who exhibit thealightest indi cations of being addicted to drink are turned down flatly by the examining surgeons when they present themselves for enlistment nowadays. The surgeons tell me that they can tell from a man’s eyes whether he has ever suffered severe ly from excessive drinking,, no matter how long the man may have abstained from drink before seeking enlistment. “If men addicted to drink do happen to get by the examining surgeon and re veal their weakness by going on tears every time they go ashore, the navy gets rid of them by simply ’beaching’ them—that is, by putting them on the beach with their bags and hammocks whereVer their ship may happen to be in a homo port. A man cannot be ‘beached’ for any cause .in a foreign country. “There are, of course, any number of men in the navy, and rattling fine sail ormen, too, who have a natural predi lection for drink, and these men the officers keep an eye on for their own good. Sailors are bound to try to smug gle liquor aboard ship. If they drink considerably on their shore liberties, they know that when they return aboard they are in for ‘ big heads’; when they awaken in their hammocks the □ext morning, and in trying to safely bring a bit of liquor off to the ship they have in mind the taking of ’a hair of the dog’ to sort of ease them up when they turn to at ‘all hands’ the next nrnrning. “Sometimes they get the liquor safe ly aboard, but generally they do not. Every enlisted man on a United States man-of-war, except the chief master at arms and the top sergeant of marines, is searched at the gangway upon his re turn from shore liberty by the gangway corporal of the marine guard, under the inspection of the officer es the deck, for the purpose of ascertaining if he has any liquor concealed about his clothes. The men have picked up some ingenious schemes for smuggling liquor in such a way that the corporal of the guard is fooled. For example, the men on the China station buy long eelskins from the coolies, fill the skins with about a quart of liquor and wind them around their necks beneath the collars of their shirts. “It took the officers on the China sta tion a long while to get on to this scheme. Then the men who felt that they surely needed a drink the next morning after returning from liberty discovered the plan of filling a rubber bag with liquor while ashore and of stowing the bag next to their waist bands. The liquor, smugglers, who ob served that the searching corporal only passed his hands up and down on the outside of their clothes, then resorted to the plan of tying bottles of liquor with string on the inner side of their legs, beneath their trousers, but any searching corporal knows all about this' one nowadays. “The cox’un of the steam cutter, who makes dozens of trips ashore a day when the cutter is ‘running boat, ’ has . to be careftflly watched, for he is liable to be tampered with by the men who want liquor pretty badly, and his op portunities for getting liquor aboard are many. Every once in awhile, upon the cutter’s return to the ship, it is searched by the officer at the deck, and the latter often finds liquor neatly stowed among the cutter coal, in the cutter bilges or even in the boiler tanks. When this happens, the cox’un of"the cutter is in trouble. He gets a big rake off from the men for his liquor smug gling, which accounts for the chances he will take. “The ship’s painter has to be watched too. He is a petty officer, and he has charge of the ship’s alcohol, which is chiefly used for the making of shellac to paint the lowqr decks. “Some of the sailors like a dose of alcohol mixed with coffee for ‘toning* and sobering up purposes, and as the ship’s painter is occasionally corruptible and carries the keys of the alcohol tanks there is quite a little drinking of this mixture on some of the ships where did timers predominate. The old flat feet have indeed been known to drink the shellac after it has been prepared for the sake of the alcohol in it, and there is an expression in the navy among the enlisted men, ‘lf you see a jackie comb ing his mustache with a marline spike, you know what he’s been at,’that is very significant. “But for all this, as I say, there is an exceedingly small percentage of drinking men in our navy in compari son with similar figures for other big navies. The occasional drinkers in our service, when they return from the beach a bit under the weather, are merely put in the brig overnight and permitted to go to work without pun ishment the next morning. ”—Wash ington Star. A REPRESENTATIVE PIRATE. „ ~ u — It is said that Kidd showed no re pentance when he wus tried, but insist ed that he was the victim of malicious persons who swore falsely against him, and yet a more thoroughly dishonest rascal never sailed under the black flag. In the guise of an accredited officer of the government be committed the crimes he was sent out to suppress. He deceiv ed his men. He robbed and misused his fellow countrymen and his friends, and he even descended to the meanness of cheating and despoiling the natives of the West India islands with whom he traded. These people were in the habit of Supplying pirates with food And other necessaries, and they always found their rough entirely honest and willing to pay for what they received, for as the pirates made a practice of stopping at certain points tor supplies they wished of course to be on good terms with those who furnished them. But’Kidd had no ideas of honor toward people of high or low degree. He would trade with the natives as if he intended to treat them fairly and pay for all he got, but when the time came for him to depart and he was ready to weigh an chor he would seize all the commodi ties he could lay his hands on and without paying a copper to the distress ed and indignant Indians he would gay ly sail away, his' black flag flaunting derisively in the wind. But although in reality Captain Kidd was no hero, he has been known for a century and more as the groat American pirate, and his name has been repre sentative of piracy ever since. Years after ho had been hung, when people heard that a vessel with a black flag— or one which looked black in the dis tance-flying from its rigging had been seen, they forgot that the famous pirate was dead and imagined that Captain Kidd was visiting their part of the coast in order that he might find a good place to bury some treasure which itwas no longer safe for him to carry about.— Frank R. Stockton in Century. RARE OLD DISHES. Tried Graoahoppors and Scorpions Delica cies of the Arabs Long Ago. An erudite Egyptian writes in The Revue des Revues of the diet of the an cient Arabs. Dog meat, it appears, was one of their favorite dishes, and young dogs were as precious in old times among the Arabs as spring chickens are among the people of today. They were also fond of cat meat. The “flesh of a black cat had the virtues qf curing them of the effects of a hoodoo and the evil eye. Fried grasshoppers and scorpions also formed a very choice dish. The natural ist, Al-'Djahey, who lived in the tenth century, speaks of his visit to the Ara bian tribes of Bassorah and of his sur prise on discovering that they did not eat grasshoppers, “nevertheless,” says he, “there is nothing more delicious.” He also says that when he went to see his friend, the poet Roohah, he found him seated on the ground enjoying a re past of roast rat. Afterward he had fried lizards. Notwithstanding the almost religious worship which the Arabs profess for the horse, they ate hdtseflesh, but only the flesh of draft horses, never that of sad dle horses. They ate all sorts of mol lusk* and insects. The Arabs were also very fond of black snakes, and they hunted them at the time when the rep tiles were about to change their skins, the flesh in that season being extremely tender. Why He Finish. Fred Buskirk was born at Ports mouth, 0., and lived there until he was a young man. Fred naturally thinks Portsmouth is one of the nicest places in the state of Ohio. Fred said: “Every body evidently doesn't think as well of Portsmouth as I da "Not long ago I went over the Ches apeake and Ohio road and when the train reached South Portsmouth, which is across the river from my native place, quite a long stop was made. Most of the male passengers got off the train and walked up ands down the platform. It was after dark, and the mstay lights of Portsmouth were plainly visible, I stood Jooking across the river at the city, thinking what a fine place Portsmouth was, when a fellow paseenger on the train came alongside of toe -and add, ‘Con you tell me what place that is across the rivferl' Os course I could tell him, and I threw out my chest and with considerable pride said': *That is Porte mdhth, O. Have you ever been there?* My fellow traveler In a very weary voice, replied: ‘Yes, I have been there. I spent about two weeks there one aft ernoon. ’ I had intended telling that man about what a charming place Portsmouth is,*but after his rudeness I concluded not to.’’—Cincinnati En quirer. DM**t WMt Mneh. Here is an advertisement from an old copy of an English provincial journal: “Wanted, for a sober family, a man of light weight, who fears the Lord and can drive a pair of horses. He must oc casionally wait at table, joip the house hold prayer, look after the horses and read a Chapter of the Bible. He must, God willing, arise at 7 o’clock in the morning and obey his master and mis tress in all lawful commands; if he can dress hair, ring psalms and play at cribbage, the more agreeable. Wagea 15 guineas a year. ** Hospital rw Trow. There- is a hospital for tree* on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Trees which grow sick along the boulevards are taken hero to recover. The ur-heey, or Chinese violin, in shape resembles an ordinary hammer with its handle. It has two strings and is played with a bow. His honor the magistrate is about the only hptior to be found among thieves. —Chicago News THE KING SNAKE. DOES HARM TO NO ONE, BUT KILLS POISON REPTILES. : Battlers and Copperhead* Ave the Prey Lorca to TackU-He Kate a Moose or a Toad After Zach Mattle to Prepare •- *•” The distant murmur of the waterfall, Abe bum of Aha bees among the flowers, wade feel lazy, and, laying aside my fishing rod, I stretched myself cm the soft spring grass under a weeping Willow anil watched the blue, cloud •pecked sky. I had almost fallen psleep when I was aroused by a voice inquir ing, “Ketched enny fish, mister?” Looking up, I saw a typical moun taineer and assured him I had not. “I say, mister, this here is a power ful bad kentry fur snakes. One bit Jim Sloan’s bay mare last night, an week afore last another bit Sally Milligan. Some on ’em air powerful pizen, spe cially the rattlers an coppers, an that 'minds me, es 1 wus yerself, I’d move a little further from that ’ere copper. He ain’t jactly petty to look at, an es Jtewnz torile 'im with yer boot he mom git vicious. ” Long before that speech had ended 1 had turned a someMult backward, which caused the mountaineer a great deal of genuine pleasure to behold. I was about to exterminate the big, sluggish reptile With a stick that I had seized when my companiop asked me to wait a few mo ments, as a king might come along. Not, exactly understanding whether he Cipected a person of that name and failing to see what that event had to do with my laudable desire to smash the big, ugly thing that had presumed to take my leg for a pillow, I asked him for an explanation. “Air it possible yer town folks dunno what a king air? Why, a king air the , boss snake uv the woods. He don’t do no harm to nothin, 'ceptin snakes, an he don't pester them as hain’t pizeu. But he do love a copper an a rattler, which is the wurst snakes uv these dig gin’s, an he’s death on 'em. "T’other day I wuz gwine long a old road, an all uv a sudden I heerd a singin as though a camp meetin had just tuck in. I knowed it wuz a rattler, an lookin round I saw him on a knoll, an a pow erful big tm he wuz. He wuz quilled up like a corkscrew, an his rattles wuz a-makin the air jingle. But at first I couldn’t 'soever the cause, an I knowed a rattler never got ready fur business fur nothin. Presently I seed the grass a-swayin an a-bendin, an then the rat tler, he gets nervius an skeered, an un quillin hisself he made a break to run. "But it wuz too late, fur on came the king like a hurricane, an'puttin hisself just ahead the fattier showed him his jig wuz up. Seeiu he couldn’t*’scape, the rattler quilled ag’in an showed fight. The king, he commenced to run ronnd his inimy in a wide circle, the rattier watchin, Hckin out his tongue an makin his rattle sing like a banjer. Closer an closer the king drawed his circle as he dashed round until he wuzn’t more’n three feet from the ini my. "Then the rattler, thinkin he saw the last show to save his bacon, made a powerful spiteful lunge at the king, an thar is whar .he slipped up, fur the king he dodged, an quicker’n gunpow der wuz on to the rattler. Thar wuzn’t nothin but a ball uv snakes in sight fur a few minutes as they fought an tus sled: over the grass, but arter a little I could see the red an black king wound jround the big rattler just like a grapevine on a tree. "Then I seed the king hold ’im by the back uv the neck, an I could hear him crushin the rattler as he tightened on him. It wuz all over in half an hour, an the king, unwindin hisself from his victim, got behind an waited fur ten minutes. Then be crept up an put his nose on the rattler’/ to see It he wuz breathin. Ye see, other makes know the king an sometimes possum on him by pretendin to be dead. j. "But the rattler wuzshore ’nuff gone, an when the king wuz satisfied uv this he crawled in a old stump hole an presently came out with a mouse’s tail stickin ont his mouf. But he soon swallowed the mouse, an, wipin his nose on the grass, went off sarchin for more trouble. A king aßen eats a I rat ora toad after a fight to make him strong fur the next un. “An now, mister, I could tell ye a powerful lot more’n that, fur I knows makes, I do, but I’ll help ye kill the copper, which mout not meet a king until he bites some un es we didn’t, an then I must hurry on -after my oxen, what I wuz huntin when I seed that varmint a-try in to go to sleep with yerself. ’’—Philadelphia Times. Rejected BLeMins*. A Lewiston man recently found a dog on his doorstep. He drove her away again and again, but she would continually re tain. Last Thursday he found her in his shed with seven pups lying contentedly on a rug. He was minded to drown them all, but did not, and Saturday a stranger came Who knew dogs and gave him $lO apieee for three of them. Sunday a man from Auburn who had heard of them came over and bought one for $lO. Mon day he sold thereat tar $8 apiece. “If I see any more dogs on my steps, I shall find out what breed they are before I drive ’em off," he said.-—Kennebec Wonsan’s Sweet Way. “The woman next door,” said the fat man, "owing to some sort of missed con neotion* had t* fall to and do the wash Ing herself last’ what do you suppose my wife dldf” "Went over and wore herself out help ing hert” asked the lean man. "Not she. She sent out a hurry call to a bunch of her cronies, and- they had a perfectly lovely game of lawn tennis while that poor unfortunate In the next yard was hanging out clothes.”—lndianapolis journal Rlfht of Neatrala Spain's report of "one mule killed at Matansas” has excited the hilarity of European newspapers. 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